topic Re: app.conf does not honor environment variables in Getting Data In

app.conf does not honor environment variables

tony_luu — Fri, 16 May 2014 20:11:08 GMT

i'd like to embed an env variable in my app label, so i add this to my app.conf:

[ui]
label = My App $SPLUNK_HOME

However, the variable didn't get expanded by Splunk (i got the verbatim label)
Also tried with quotes but made no difference.

Looks like app.conf doesn't like env variables.
Any idea?

Re: app.conf does not honor environment variables

lguinn2 — Fri, 16 May 2014 21:53:31 GMT

That is true.

Re: app.conf does not honor environment variables

mikaelbje — Fri, 29 May 2015 13:02:31 GMT

It looks like some of Splunk's config files do expand environment variables. Do you know if there's a list? I'm particularly interested in being able to use $HOSTNAME in transforms.conf at an intermediate forwarder to be able to track what intermediate forwarder the event passed through.

Re: app.conf does not honor environment variables

abhishekdharga — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:50:37 GMT

@mikaelbje Did u get the $HOSTNAME working in Transforms.conf I am facing the same problem.